Jade: -an in-human screech- Aaah! –dodges several projectiles being shot from the audience- TamiaEternity! I'm SOOO sorry! I forgot to put the address in the chapter! I did put a link to it in my profile though! You go to jade-of-the-dragons on DA to find it, the address is at: deviantart. com/deviation/22103170/ -dodges more projectiles and hides behind Jin-
Jin: Jade-san! Are you really that afraid they'll be angry at you! –is being more serious than normal- -bows to audience- my creator is currently hating school, she has a full schedule, which means she has four classes a day instead of three like almost all her other friends… -gets put in a head lock by Jade-
Jade: Yeah, Art & tech, Honors English, Global Science, (we may get to do a behavior modification experiment on a student teacher! Whee!) and Algebra 1. (THREE text book classes in one DAY! Man I'm in pain…) and for Day 2, Physical Education, (bring on the athsma attacks! I'll survive! …even if I can't see straight…) Honors World History, Japanese 1-2 (WHEE!) and I have to get on a shuttle bus to the Sabin-Schellingsburg Technology Institute for Intro to Info Tech! (another WHEE!) Though by the third period of each day I'm so tired I yawn ever couple minutes…
Jin: Jade. Tell them.
Jade: I'm to be on a look out for a severe earthquake in the next few weeks; I really hope it is not the one that comes every 400 years, though it is due to come soon… Actually it could happen anywhere's from now to the next 100 years so it will probably happen in my life time… I hope we don't get the earthquake… -climbs on Jin's back and pokes him in the cheek- Jin…?
Jin: -gets all bouncy- Jade-san is very unhappy to inform you all that she DOES NOT own DNAngel, no matter how much she pleads with the gods for it! And on to the story! –is said in an extravagant voice- Starring Satoshi Hikari! (well… It is mainly from his point of few… that's what Jade had in mind anyway…)
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Chapter Eight: Daisuke Kidnapped! And… a key?
"Hey, Krad, we're out of mild and eggs," he opened the refrigerator with a small noise. Turning around he kicked the door closed with the toe of his shoe. "I'm going to run down to that little convenience store we saw on the way back from the stop." He leaned against the table and ran his hand through his hair, still feeling slightly sleepy still, "It's only a couple of blocks away, you know, the one with the picture of cheese in the sign? Ahh… what's it called?" he stumbled over remembering.
"Just don't go alone." Krad released Dark from a choke hold that had been spawned from Dark's disastrous attempt at making coffee that morning. Dark choked, trying to force air into is lungs. He was slightly pale and the Coffee Machine was still… Smoking from it some how managing to get caught on fire.
"Take someone with you," Krad continued, completely ignoring the death glares he was receiving from his love. "The thirtieth century is a lot more dangerous than the twenty-first was." He caught Daisuke by the arm as he tried to exit the kitchen. After all, through the last nine hundred years he knew quite well how it was. He was still trying to get over the experience he had had whilst he had been being stalked by a girl-gang.
"Can't. Sato-kun is still in there," he jerked his thumb in the general direction of their room.
They had looked in time to see Satoshi blink at his regular two minute interval. "He looks more like the living dead now than before!" was Dark's comment from the other side of the table. He was currently using a chair as a shield incase Krad got the idea to go after him again. Satoshi's pendant glittered in the sunlight that was streaming into the room from the wide open window at the head of the bed. Thankfully for him, Satoshi wasn't comprehending anything yet. Had he been comprehending things, knowing Satoshi, Dark would now be sporting a big bump on his head.
"Take Dark then! Get him out of the house before he catches it on fire!" Krad rolled his eyes, it should have been obvious on whom to take on this 'mission'.
Daisuke shrugged and conceded to Krad's wishes, all the while wondering how he could have asked Dark to come along as he had been being choked by the wisher.
Dark stuck his hand out as if waiting for something. For some reason Daisuke could not fathom Dark was grinning impishly.
"Dark! YOU'RE paying for it! You're the one who blew up the micro wave! I've put out enough money as it is!" he slapped the hand way.
"So?" Dark asked cockily.
"Just get out!" Krad threw a five dollar bill at Dark's chest and walked away in a huff, Padfoot following not two feet behind.
Some how during Dark and Krad's "conversation" Daisuke had ended up at the entryway of the house. Shrugging on his red coat he blinked and sent and inquiring glace in Dark's direction. "Do you two do this all the time?"
"Hai." Was Dark's only reply as he pulled on a black jacket, "let's go!" He slung his arm around Daisuke's small shoulders and led him out the front door and off to the shop.
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The glass door shut with at whump of displaced air as Daisuke turned around with two jugs of milk in his hands "Got them. Ready to pay and head back?" he held out a jug to Dark, waiting for him to grab it.
Dark absently took it while looking longingly at a giant $10 chocolate bar. He felt Daisuke grab his sleeve and hail him to an open cash register where a fully decked out Goth was leaning on the counter.
"Quit begging!" Daisuke teased, his voice clearly portraying his amusement, "It'll only make you fat if you get that!" he set the set the milk jug down and squeaked as Dark tried to tackle him. "Dark!" he dodged again, "Set the jug down before you break it!"
The jug was only set down as soon as Dark had Daisuke in a headlock.
Only after the guy behind the counter went through the process of hitting a bunch of buttons on the cash register and rang the two items up he spoke, "That'll be $2.98." After receiving the crumpled five dollar bill he handed back the change, "$2.02 is your change, we hope to see you again." He lifted the headphones he had placed on the counter to his ears and see proceeded to ignore them, his fingers tapping in sync with the tune.
A few minutes later Daisuke was starting to feel uneasy, Dark was walking along beside him, the milk jug swinging in his hands whistling in tune with the song the guy had been listening to, after all, the volume was cranked up so loud that the headphones had turned from a personal music device to near the equivalent of a boom-box. It was surprising that the owner hadn't gone deaf!
Their groceries landed with a crash, cracking the plastic containers as they fell. A throwing dagger had just barely missed piercing Darks hand as he dodged away and Daisuke wasn't so lucky, though the throwing dagger hadn't been aimed at his hand. It was sticking out of his upper arm.
"Well, well, well. If it isn't that Hentai Kaitou Dark." Her voice showed volumes of disgust, "Fancy seeing you here. Surely you should be dead by now," out from seemingly no where Riku stepped out. She was scantly wearing anything though there was a large black cloak over her body. Clutched in her hands were another four more throwing knives.
Swiftly, before either had time to react further someone came up behind Daisuke and, with the sickening sound of impact, knocked him completely unconscious.
A shrill giggle was heard behind them and Risa dared to show her face, she was "dolled" up in red and black, lace everywhere. A sadistic grin was on her face, bearing an elongated canine, and a long metal pipe was clutched in her hands.
"Ah, Risa-dearest, great job sister! Now to take care of him," Riku turned her attention back to Dark. "Believe us," an insane and sadistic grin spread across her face, mirroring her sisters yet seemingly even more sinister, "We'll make this as painful as possible!"
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A bright flash lighted the bedroom and Satoshi bolted out of the room, still sparsely clad in his boxers and completely barefoot. His katana was clutched in his hand and his other snared Krad on the way out to the door way, after a second spent on opening the door without breaking it Satoshi let go of Krad's arm and quickly waved him into following, ignoring Krad's comments on how sparsely garbed he was.
Satoshi's feet slapped on the pavement as he tried to follow Daisuke's signature, the signature was fading even though he was sure he was headed in the right direction. He suddenly stopped, causing Krad, who was having a VERY difficult time keeping up despite all his years as a "Hunter", to crash into him.
"Why'd you stop? What's going on?" he exclaimed loudly, drawing all the attention that Satoshi hadn't managed to catch whilst standing over half naked in a pubic street.
"Where is he! Something's wrong! I can't feel him anymore!" his voice was panicked, and he was whipping his head around trying to find "him".
"Who?" Krad started, then, hissing in a breath he ran forward, seeing Dark laying in an alley way surrounded by trash and what the two had been bringing home.
There were cuts everywhere and the beginning of bruises galore. A streak of blood fell from in his hair line, showing for all to see where he had been hit to be knocked unconscious.
Satoshi, following Krad over with a growing sense of dread noted the blood that was not of his own and hair on his fingers. Reddish brown hair. Riku. "Riku…" he hissed, beyond furious, he tightened his grip, one hand full of claws piercing his palms and the other tightening with such force that had the swords pommel not been of the quality it was it would have surely shattered.
Daisuke was nowhere to be found.
(AN: well, if I wanted to be evil and give you a short chapter I could stop there but… Nah! This chapter is going to be longer than all my others! I don't know by how much though…)
Krad was just shy of panicking and trying to shake his beloved Dark awake, but for the moment at least he was acting rationally, checking his vital signs and the extent of the injuries and trying to gauge if he actually needed a doctor to check him out for once.
"Daisuke…" Satoshi's voice was quivering, rage, pain, and sadness all mixed up into one. He didn't know when he had grown to care so much but he would get his Daisuke back, no matter what.
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They were geared up for a full frontal assault on Don Hikari's fortress and nothing was going to stand in their way. Dark had recovered sufficiently; it was good to be an inhuman creature sometimes. Dark's, Krad's, and Satoshi's wings were folded tightly up against their bodies and one, two, three…
Three sets of wings spread open in the night air, one a violet so deep in color it matched the night air, one glowing as brightly as the moon, and one seeming almost to not being there, barely making a sound at all. A loud crash echoed through the air as three orbs of energy, one black, one white, one blue, completely decimated the front draw bridge. The screams of the sentries immediately followed that up.
The Pendant was glowing again. Reaching a slender artists hand, he cupped it in his palm, "Dark, Krad, he's around here somewhere, somewhere very close." Satoshi managed to say whilst slaughtering the demons in his current vicinity.
"You looking for the creature?" a voice cut across the night air, heard clearly by all. Satoshi whipped around his eyes wildly searching for the source of the voice yet never completely dropping the other demons from his attention. He spotted her, Riku. He hissed the tone completely feral, noting that Hizeme was standing at her side, letting the monstrosity that took his Dai-chan from him lean on his shoulder.
"Daisuke Niwa is no "creature" as you so inadequately put it. He is an Angel! An Angel! He lunged forward, fully intent on ripping them both to shreds. He was daunted by a rain storm of fire.
"An Angel with red wings," Hizeme and Riku both snorted at that, "Angel's do not have red wings. He just must be lying to you! He's no Angel," he was about to say more but Dark's shout cut him off.
"Hey! I was originally a purple winged Angel!" He pretended to think a minute before smirking at the two, "Though, that was before the Hikari's brought me down and bound me to the descendants of the Niwas of course! I know for a fact that he is an Angel! He died 900 years ago and while he was alive he had the same wings as now! I should know! He was one of my hosts!" Dark started launching dark balls of energy at the two demons, especially at Riku; he had a serious bone to pick with her now. She took Daisuke from them, he had been the only host he had gotten really close to and befriended, he had been really sad to leave him and go back into the Void.
Gold eyes flashing, Krad joined him in the assault. No-one hurt his Dark and got away with it! His Dark was his world. After 500 years of fighting and 800 years of companionship and love he relied on Dark to keep him from going back to being the 'homicidal blond' again.
Dark and Krad were sure doing a good job distracting them, Satoshi decided with a slight smile as he swooped down low over another section of the fortress, decapitating another twenty demons as he went. He was getting closer to Daisuke's place and they weren't noticing. Well, much anyways, he decided, swinging his katana gracefully through the bodies. It was now completely slicked down with blood. The necklace flared sharply with bright light as he passed by a stairwell. Dropping down, his feet barely touched the stairs as he pressed the wings up tight against his back in the area, meant for smaller demons he supposed. Coming across a Guard Demon he swiftly set about killing it, caught unawares, it was dead a mere second after it caught sight of the blue haired demon. Jumping over the unfortunate Demon he continued down the stairs, not stopping till the necklace flared brightly once again.
"Helps me find stuff I suppose…" he muttered to himself as he pushed a dark dusty tapestry out of his way. Dusting his hands off on his no longer white pants he looked around the room in search of either Daisuke or another doorway.
"Well, well, well," he heard someone say, the voice shrill and playful in a way he did not appreciate. Satoshi just barely dodged a shrunken thrown his way. There was shrill laughter echoing across the empty grey room, all but for two small tapestries hiding the door the room was completely blank. Plain, dusty rectangular stones made up the floor and walls, the room looked like it might he the base of a tall tower, high up on the walls were shattered stain-glass windows that had no doubt, at one point in time, carried the images of Angels and a Crucifix. "You here to find the Angel of Fire?"
Satoshi allowed his attention to focus of Risa; she had a maniacal grin on her face and looked like the cat that had swallowed the canary. "You'll have to get through me first!" she seemed energized by the idea that she would be fighting one of the most dangerous Demons on the planet. "Asurei-sama's orders!" she trilled happily, straightening her lacy black and red shirt and ignoring the fact that her skirt was riding up too high and showing way too much.
Baring a fang and snarling at her, Satoshi had never looked so alive, his mask was discarded, it had been slipping ever since he had met the little Angel of Fire. The sword that the blue eyed Vampire held in his hand came up till it was pointed directly at Risa's throat, though at the very least 20 feet still separated them. "You will die for this offence, Risa-chan." He sneered coldly, venom lacing every word in deadly certainty.
Satoshi launched himself forward, attempting to kill her swiftly, no, he wouldn't torture her, torture was a form of punishment he had undergone when ever he angered or annoyed his father, he had no like to subject another creature to that act. Nothing deserved it, at least as brutally as he was thinking of.
Risa dodged to the side, nearly, just nearly hitting him in the spot that he had left open for a fourth of a second. He hissed and reeled out of the way; even though it had missed his open spot it had nearly pierced his big bat-like leathery wings. He melded his appendages back into his frame and whipped back around diving back at her again. His movements were fluid-like, seeming to stay the same though they were changing.
He just barely missed with his last strike, she had just managed avoiding decapitation and yet she was still laughing, a thin line of blood was trailing down her face and she was now sporting a partial haircut similar to her twins. He, on the other hand was now sporting a cut on his arm, not deep, thankfully.
The sound of a body coming into sharp contact with stone echoed around the room as Risa's body slid down the wall, she was no longer laughing. He had switched techniques as she was getting used to him coming after her with the sword, he had used brute physical strength, swiping her feet from under her and giving her an upper cut for all it was worth.
Before he had time to deliver the finishing blow she grinned at him and darted off into the second room, her voice echoed, almost mocking, "You'll have to get through me first!"
There was the clanging noise of a cell door being thrown open and as he came through the door Risa threw a key at his head, and darted off again, Daisuke clutched unconscious in her arms, blood was running down the back of his head, down his neck and soaking his robes. It was a good think he was an Angel, had he not been he would have surely been dead by then from blood loss.
When he caught up, he found that he was back at the front of the fortress; he could see Dark and Krad still fighting Hizeme and Riku. Risa was holding Daisuke by the front of the robes over a wall, the drop was one even Vampires found daunting and quite very well deadly. Daisuke's head was tilted to the side and his body was completely limp, "You want him? Catch him!" She threw him out as far as she could with an insane grin on her face and her glowing red brown eyes locked on Satoshi's blue.
Satoshi instinctively ran forward, his katana cut her in half, going straight through the heart as he lunged forward. He sailed through the air catching Daisuke in his arms and somehow managing to sheathe his katana at the same time without hurting Daisuke in the process. They landed with a thud that sent sharp needle like waves of pain through his legs. Their momentum carried the Vampire forward a few steps before he broke out in a run, the bat-like wings came into existence on his back, shredding a little more of his shirt with their coming as he launched into the sky.
Satoshi hissed in pain as he felt a throwing knife pierce his flesh just below the main bone in his wing. His voice echoed for all their enemies to hear, "You are never getting my Daisuke-chan away from me! You will never get him away from me again!" he swore, his voice carrying a tone that plainly said, 'try this again and every one of you in existence will die a very painful death'. His blue eyes were flashing dangerously as he felt Daisuke stir in his arms. With a sharp beat Satoshi propelled them up in the air and well out of Riku's throwing range. It didn't stop her from trying though.
The knife was still embedded in his back, thankfully not deep enough to pose a great problem and Daisuke was still clutched tightly against his chest as he left. Satoshi growled angrily at the bruises that were standing out lividly against Daisuke's normal skin tone.
Five miles later Daisuke was thinking, recalling the words Satoshi had said to the demons, he hadn't let the Vampire know that he was fully conscious by then though he thought that he probably knew. Wait… Sato-kun considered him his? Did he mean that as if he were and item or a special person? Why had he reacted that badly to him being kidnapped? They hadn't known each other very long at all. Daisuke was slowly recognizing the feelings he held for the larger guy. Did Sato-kun hold the same feelings for him?
Daisuke could feel Satoshi's heart beating rapidly in his chest as they started to descend from flight. He opened his eyes when he felt the bump of landing.
Satoshi slowly released Daisuke's legs, letting his body swing down till he was standing upright in the soft dark green grass on the cemetery. He wrapped both of his arms around Daisuke's lower back and buried his head in the little alcove of his shoulder and neck with a soft sigh. "Your okay," he whispered, relieved beyond all reason.
Satoshi sighed again and pulled Daisuke down till they were both in a sitting position, pulling Daisuke's hands towards him he had little trouble shredding the rope off Daisuke's hands with his clawed fingers. After Daisuke's meek 'arigato' he shifted position and tried to pull out the knife. The main problem? He couldn't retract his wings and there for couldn't reach!
"I'll get it," Daisuke said softly, slightly apprehensive, seeing as he was trying to ask a certain question. The knife safely out, Daisuke decided to pop the question, and no, he wasn't asking Satoshi to marry him guys! "So… Sato-kun?" he asked as Satoshi pulled him into a hug, shifting slightly so that his voice wouldn't be muffled by his shirt, "Does that mean you like me?" he asked, surprisingly managing to keep from stuttering, that didn't keep him from lighting up like Rudolph's nose though.
Man he was tired but Satoshi's head jerked up from Daisuke's shoulder faster than you could say 'jinx' during a contest, a blush made its way across his face. "Daisuke—I uh…" he buried his head down by his ear, and mumbled yet with certainty, "Daisuki… If not that… More…"
Daisuke was ecstatic; he threw his arms around Satoshi's back and pulled him closer, mindful of the wound. "I feel the same way!" letting go he put Satoshi's face between his hands where it had popped up in surprise. Leaning forward he took control for the moment and pulled him in for a kiss. It was strange kissing someone with fangs and he thanked the lucky stars he was immortal, for the kiss lasted well over a minute.
Satoshi's pendant's sudden flare of light is what made them pull away, "Nani?" he asked it rhetorically, puzzled, he looked over Daisuke's shoulder and saw it. The antique cross, the Fourth Cross, "Daisuke-chan…" he murmured with smile on his face and a bared fang in a somewhat spunky manner, "look!"
"Nani?" Daisuke asked, turning around to see the object of Satoshi's current attention. Happiness sparked in a flash of happiness, "The Key!" he all but squealed. "And they're not guarding it!" he was bouncing up and down in anticipation. "Can you get it?" he asked eagerly.
Satoshi couldn't help but laugh, Daisuke was behaving like an over eager puppy! He ran his hands through Daisuke's beautiful spiky locks. "Be right back." He got up and walked over to the cross and watched as the now familiar white light climb up his arms as he was pulled into the darkness.
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"Konbanwa…" the Guardian of the Fourth Key purred, "I am Higure, nice to meet you." Satoshi lifted his eyes to see Higure and was quite startled by what he saw, whilst all the other guardians had looked completely human this one did not, she had beautiful cat ears perched on her head, and while the front of her hair reached just down to her shoulders, like bangs were two colored, The very front was black, split down the center so that it had two clack streaks on either side of her nose, the rest of her hair, including the rest of the bangs were a light lavender color, the back was pulled in a pony tail where it broke off into two cloth bound braids. Her shirt bared her midriff and she had several layers around her waist. Slung over, low on her hips was a belt with pockets to hold stuff built right in.
"Nice to meet you too," he returned, trying to work over his surprise. He ran a hand through his shoulder length cobalt blue hair, slightly embarrassed that he had gotten surprised.
Finding amusement in this Higure started laughing, "Surprised by my appearance? Well tell ya what," she made a playful shushing motion from on her cross, "I'll tell you a secret; I'm a Demon! My life as a human was really screwed up which is why I got to be a Demon is the first place but I met the Angels right off the bat! All the guardians are Demons!" She grinned, fingering the Key around her neck, "We are lucky, we can pass in and out of Heaven at will. Once we die we skip the line and go straight into heaven!" She grinned at his confused look, "I bet you want to know why I am telling you this don't you?"
He nodded mutely in reply.
"I was watching you and the Angel! If the Angel can care about you that much you might be like me!" She waited a few moments for it to click in his mind as to what the meant by that.
"You mean I would be able to go into heaven even though I am a Vampire?" he asked incredulously.
"Exactly!"
He nodded and smiled, "I'll ask Daisuke about it." He blinked for a moment knowing he was forgetting something, "Oh yes, Asahi said for me to tell you hi, you'll be seeing him soon wont you?" he asked, having a feeling that they would bee seeing each other.
"Asahi…" she purred, looking like she was wandering off into daydream land, "I miss him a lot…" She took the Key from off her necklace and held it in her hands right above her heart, "Let's not let this be bye okay? I'll see you in Heaven!" She tossed the silver key to him, its purple stone glowed warmly as he caught it and everything faded away.
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"Daisuke…" he said playfully turning around to see the Angel in question stretched out on the grass playing with it. Yawning, Daisuke looked up, bouncing, he launched himself up and over to Satoshi, giving him a giant bear hug, despite the fact that he was smatter than the person he was hugging.
Grinning, he pulled him over to a bench he saw and hoisted him into his lap.
That's how they found them early the next morning, Satoshi, clutching Daisuke protectively and possessively, arms wrapped tightly around the smaller form snuggled comfortably in his lap. His head was pressed against Satoshi's chest, the Fourth Key clutched tightly in hand and a serene look on his face. The blue haired boy's expression was similar to Daisuke's; smoothed and calm no presence of worry or strain. His body was relaxed despite the fact that he was seated upright curled around the smaller body. Somehow he managed to capture the air of someone who would jump up and fight till tooth and claw at the slightest sign of danger for the one in his arms.
"It'll be a shame to wake them up…" Dark whispered a mischievous smirk on his face.
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Jade: so… how do you like my new line breaks? -leans against Jin looking exhausted- I have a cold… A severe sinus infection. It was really, really, really painful to swallow and breathe through my nose. I've been sick for four days…
Jin: she missed two days of school! -tries to get away- I don't want your cold!
Jade: be happy! –waves a tissue at potential reviewers- This chapter is twice as long as all my others! 4,501 words! (the actual story, not the side notes, I don't count the side notes) Review! -prays to the heavens above you don't mind the longish wait-
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